Whenever there is a shooting or a terrorist attack, Democrat lefties immediately seize on the tragedy, seemingly before the bodies are cleared, in order to ride their favorite political hobby horse of gun confiscation, or as they like to more gently refer to it, gun control. There seems to be a complete logic disconnect as they suggest that taking guns away from ordinary citizens is going to make everyone safer when the bad guys or the terrorists come to shoot them. How will unarmed citizens be safer under those circumstances?
There is, in fact, ample evidence that arming the public will do more to advance the safety of society than even a huge increase in police might would. Police cannot be everywhere at every moment, but an armed populace, especially one with hidden weapons, is a tremendous deterrent to bad guys since they have no idea who is armed or where they may be. And it certainly does not require arming every person in a crowd. The unknown factor of who might or might not be packing a nine millimeter pistol keeps the baddies guessing.
The evidence for this proposition is that most or all of the recent mass shootings have taken place in “gun free zones,” meaning zones designated to be free of guns. And they were, except for the bad guy or guys, who somehow missed the rule and so were able to mow down countless unarmed and defenseless citizens.
Another arrogant, anti-gun “progressive,” in this case a law professor by the name of David Cohen, has rushed to print anti-American propaganda in Rolling Stone magazine. While there may be as many as a dozen people who still actually read the magazine, it might still be instructive to broaden the reach of his musings and review some of the good professors points in this article.
Read anti-gun arguments on page 2:
Ban your station! Anti American!!!
This is why I don’t watch CNN, They are a liberal network, and think like Obama the waste.
CNN AND ROLLING STONE ARE FREAKIN MORONS! !
What the fawk is wrong with these socialist$#%&!@*boys at rolling stone?
It’s time for Rolling Stone to keep rolling out of business.
How does F_CK NO sound? Time for these yellow cnn cowards to be shut down. The 2nd Amendment has never been needed more. What a complete bunch of morons!
Cnn..Commie News Network..
Most of the time the police may as well be on the moon… my place of business got robbed a little over three weeks ago andf these Barney’s here in SC did not take prints or anything. When i asked them why…. I was told by the responding officer…” we aren’t NCIS”.
NOT GOING TO HAPPEN!
You know people keep saying that… Still yet to see a massacre prevented by an armed civilian…